by David Brooks | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog
This report from UNH came out last week, while I was on vacation, so here it is late. It will, I think, change few minds because of some of the folks behind it (funding by The Nature Conservancy? Cameron Wake is involved? Conspiracy and fake news!) but it’s...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I am writing a column about arsenic naturally occurring in new Hampshire groundwater, so I thought I’d rerun this 2012 column I wrote for the Telegraph: You think you know New Hampshire? Yeah, me too. So why don’t we know about the Massabesic Gneiss Complex?...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are plenty of places that do take-offs on the college basketball playoffs called March Madness (I like the March Mammal Madness bracket) so here’s one that you can participate in: CoCoRaHS March Madness. The Community Collaborative Rain Hail Snow Network...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the great pleasures of being a reporter is stumbling onto stuff you didn’t know – like the way New Hampshire issues about 140 permits a year for people to do gold prospecting in our rivers and streams. There’s gold in them thar White...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Great line in a Gizmodo story (worth reading: right here) about a variant of the CRISPR technique being eyed for killing “superbug” bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics: If CRISPR-Cas9 is a genetic scalpel, CRISPR-Cas3 is a chainsaw. As the story...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Mashable has a good discussion of how insanely warm February has been in the U.S. (Concord, for example, broke a 142-year-old record for high temperarue on Feb. 22): Through Feb. 22, daily record highs have been blowing away daily record lows by a greater than...
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